Sentence examples for Almost spans from inspiring English sources

His career almost spans the life of jazz and has figured prominently in the surge which has brought jazz from the bawdy houses of New Orleans to the Metropolitan Opera House and even to Buckingham Palace.

He has 38 caps to show for an international career that almost spans a decade, though the retirement of Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard leaves him among the senior members of Roy Hodgson's squad in spite of his relative youth.

The Wfdc17 sequence almost spans the full wild-type sequence; there are only 12 bp missing from the 5′ end.

Van der Weyden develops the idea further, placing a large crucifixion towering above the figures and almost spanning the height of the central panel.

Mr. Hartke somehow manages to keep you hooked through long, almost timeless spans of harmonically shimmering choral music.

They're a disparate bunch, representing an almost unnatural span of that spectrum.

During almost three decades spanning 1951 to 1980, when America's top marginal tax rate was between 70 and 92percentthethe nation's average annual growth was 3.7percentt.

Swift's publishing career spans almost 35 years.

Caro's account of this epic battle on the senate floor spans almost 200 pages.

It spans almost 35 miles -- 183,421.006 feet, actually -- but is accurate to within 12 inches.

Now the two-in-one category spans almost every capability and cost.